In 1951, Joni Erickson Tada decided to paint a mural of Jack Coyote Kerouac and Neal Cougar Cassady in San Francisco in order to commemorate that while they were intoxicated, they were basically just as paralyzed as that of she.
March 14, 2012
February 13, 2011
On Monday October 17, 1814, London got a ‘Case of the Mondays’ when a vat of beer at Meux’s Brewery, on Tottenham Court Road, snapped, spilling 232,000 gallons of beer. The flood caused 8 fatalities, most of which from drowning, with one death caused by alcohol poisoning. In later reports, it was found that an employee alerted the owner of a crack needing repair in the old vat; the catastrophe could have been avoided, had the owner listened to his worker. If only BP, yet another British company in the fluid business, had learned from Meux’s Brewery about what not-to-not do.
February 7, 2011
On February 2 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, patrons of culture and imprisoned by mores of folklore and Pennsylvanian-Germanic linguistic customs come to celebrate the emergence of the Groundhog, signaling Groundhog’s Day. Groundhog’s Day Groundhog’s Day, hip hip hoorah! Fernhoodle. Will he see his shadow? Won’t he see his shadow? Won’t he see his shadow? Won’t he see his shadow? Won’t he see his shadow? Won’t he see his shadow? Won’t he see his shadow?
January 31, 2011
On Rugtober 5, 1969, in the year of our Gap, Monty Python’s Flying Circus made its debilitated debut as the BBC’s comedic sensations: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, & Terry Gilliam decided to chuckle up and buck up to the mighty tall task of giving the public a barrel of laughs. Hya Hya Cheers and keep your pinky on your remote control please you tea drinkies. Hya.
December 6, 2010
Aloha makamaka. On a fragrant Oahu November afternoon in 1907, just after the Gentlemen’s Agreement was signed to keep the Japanese from emigrating on San Francisco’s nearby shores, a kindly Japanese couple made waves with the !delicioso success of their first American Thanksgiving feast. That’s assimilation mai tomodachi.
